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The 21st amendment to the constitution repeals the 18th Amendment to the Constitution which stated that you could not buy, sell, or consume alcoholic beverages.

Answer: This amendment overrules the 18th Amendment.
 * Question: What does this amendment do?**

//**Question: What was the 18th amendment?**// Answer: The 18th amendment ruled out any buying, selling, and transporting of any alcohol in the United States.

//**Question: Who wrote the 21st Amendment to the Constitution?**// Answer: Senator John Blaine of Wisconsin wrote the 21st Amendment.

//**Question: What was going on in the United States at the time this amendment was being written?**// Answer: During 1933 the country was experiencing the Great Depression, a time of great unemployment and a loss of money. During this time Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States. He kept many Americans happy with his pep talks and speeches during this time of need. Click the pic of Teddy. This link brings you to a page about the great depression: http://www.42explore2.com/depresn.htm The link on Mr. Roosevelt's picture also tells information about the great depression and everything else that happened during this time period.

//**Question: When was the 21st Amendment ratified?**// Answer: The 21st amendment was ratified (started/came into office) on December 5, 1933. This amendement overeruled the 18th, which was ratified in 1918. This meant that for 15 years people had to endure many hardships, especially people who where addicted before.

//**Question: Who wanted the 21st amendment added to the constitution?**// Answer:Temperance advocates believed that alcohol should be enjoyed in little amounts. They beleived that it had affected many lives. People that were already addicted to alcohol had to change their habbits and could not drink. This forced people in a way to do illegal things such as steal and try to import alcohol without the laws concent. The 21st amendment allowed people to drink, supply, and transport alcohol without disobeying the law.


 * Fun Fact**: Did you know that about 15,000 people die a year from driving under the influence of alchohol?
 * Another Fun Fact:** Maine and Montana started the 21st Amendment 2 years later then all the other states. In our opinion, we think this is odd because Maine is also having problems with children underaged buying cigarrettes off the internet.

Answer: Some people today do want this law and some people do not want it. They think It is nice to go out to a resturant and have a glass of wine or some beer, and it is ok to have a bottle of beer on a hot day when they just finished working. It is ok when someone had one or two glasses but people do not want this amendment out into affect when a drunk driver kills a loved one or someone gets into a fight or commites suicide because they have had to much. When people drink to much the alcohol starts to control their brain and they can't function properly.
 * Question: Do people still want this amendment today?**

**Current Events/Examples of issues**
Interstate Wine Sales My article is about interstate wine sales. This is related to the 21st amendment because it talks about how buying wine off the internet or from a catalog was illegal, now you can whenever you wish. This article is very interesting and informative. [|www.nytimes.com] (ARLETTE)

Supreme Court Weighs Maine's tobacco Law The article I looked at was how underaged children can buy cigarrets off the internet. In Maine, people are trying to prevent children from buying cigerets. I personaly believe that it is horrible that children should even have excess to drugs, especialy cigerets. This article relates to the 21st amendment because they both are about bad habits. [|www.nytimes.com] (JAKE)

Juanita Swedenburg, 82, dies; Won Suit on Wine Shipping This article is about a lady who won a battle over wine shipping that kept companies from shipping wine or any alcohol direcly to cusomers. Acccording to the customers they wanted the wine and other alcohol products to be shipped right to their door. Unfortunatley in some states the government forbide that. People fought long and hard and debated going back and forth. Finally the supreme court rules that the people would be aloud to have alcohol shipped right to their doors. This was a very clear article and it relates to the 21st amendment perfectly because it is about people's rights to buy alcohol. [|www.nytimes.com/2007/06/16/us/16swedenburg.html?sq=21st] (KURT)